The defeat of Shipka Peak, Bulgarian War of Independence

Events

January–March

January 1 January 1 or 1 January is the first day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 364 days remaining until the end of the year (365 in leap years). This day is also known as New Year's Day since the day marks the beginning of the yea ...

–

Queen Victoria Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until Death and state funeral of Queen Victoria, her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 21 ...

is proclaimed '' Empress of India'' by the '' Royal Titles Act 1876'', introduced by

Benjamin Disraeli Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881) was a British statesman and Conservative politician who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He played a central role in the creation o ...

, the

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom The prime minister of the United Kingdom is the head of government of the United Kingdom. The prime minister advises the sovereign on the exercise of much of the royal prerogative, chairs the Cabinet and selects its ministers. As modern pr ...

. *

January 8 Events Pre-1600 * 307 – Emperor Huai of Jin, Jin Huaidi becomes emperor of China in succession to his father, Emperor Hui of Jin, Jin Huidi, despite a challenge from his uncle, Sima Ying. * 871 – Æthelred I, King of Wessex, Æthel ...

–

Great Sioux War of 1876 The Great Sioux War of 1876, also known as the Black Hills War, was a series of battles and negotiations that occurred in 1876 and 1877 in an alliance of Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne against the United States. The cause of the war was the ...

– Battle of Wolf Mountain:

Crazy Horse Crazy Horse ( lkt, Tȟašúŋke Witkó, italic=no, , ; 1840 – September 5, 1877) was a Lakota war leader of the Oglala band in the 19th century. He took up arms against the United States federal government to fight against encroachment by wh ...

and his warriors fight their last battle with the

United States Cavalry The United States Cavalry, or U.S. Cavalry, was the designation of the mounted force of the United States Army by an act of Congress on 3 August 1861.Price (1883) p. 103, 104 This act converted the U.S. Army's two regiments of dragoons, one ...

Montana Montana () is a state in the Mountain West division of the Western United States. It is bordered by Idaho to the west, North Dakota and South Dakota to the east, Wyoming to the south, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbi ...

. *

January 20 Events Pre-1600 * 250 – Pope Fabian is martyred during the Decian persecution. * 649 – King Chindasuinth, at the urging of bishop Braulio of Zaragoza, crowns his son Recceswinth as co-ruler of the Visigothic Kingdom. * 1156 &ndas ...

– The Conference of Constantinople ends, with

Ottoman Turkey The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University) ...

rejecting proposals of internal reform and Balkan provisions. *

January 29 Events Pre-1600 * 904 – Sergius III is elected pope, after coming out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher. * 946 – Caliph Al-Mustakfi is blinded and deposed by Emir Mu'izz al-Dawla, ruler o ...

– The Satsuma Rebellion, a revolt of disaffected

samurai were the hereditary military nobility and officer caste of medieval and early-modern Japan from the late 12th century until their abolition in 1876. They were the well-paid retainers of the '' daimyo'' (the great feudal landholders). They h ...

in Japan, breaks out against the new imperial government; it lasts until September, when it is crushed by a professionally led army of draftees. *

February 17 Events Pre-1600 * 1370 – Northern Crusades: Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Teutonic Knights meet in the Battle of Rudau. * 1411 – Following the successful campaigns during the Ottoman Interregnum, Musa Çelebi, one of the sons of ...

– Major General Charles George Gordon of the

British Army The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force. , the British Army comprises 79,380 regular full-time personnel, 4,090 Gurk ...

is appointed Governor-General of the Sudan. * March – '' The Nineteenth Century'' magazine is founded in London. *

March 2 Events Pre-1600 * 537 – Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoth army under king Vitiges begins the siege of the capital. Belisarius conducts a delaying action outside the Flaminian Gate; he and a detachment of his ''bucellarii'' are almost cut o ...

–

Compromise of 1877 The Compromise of 1877, also known as the Wormley Agreement or the Bargain of 1877, was an unwritten deal, informally arranged among members of the United States Congress, to settle the intensely disputed 1876 presidential election between Ruth ...

: The

1876 United States presidential election The 1876 United States presidential election was the 23rd quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 7, 1876, in which Republican nominee Rutherford B. Hayes faced Democrat Samuel J. Tilden. It was one of the most contentious ...

is resolved with the selection of Rutherford B. Hayes as the winner, even though

Samuel J. Tilden Samuel Jones Tilden (February 9, 1814 – August 4, 1886) was an American politician who served as the 25th Governor of New York and was the Democratic candidate for president in the disputed 1876 United States presidential election. Tilden was ...

won the popular vote on November 7,

1876 Events January–March * January 1 ** The Reichsbank opens in Berlin. ** The Bass Brewery Red Triangle becomes the world's first registered trademark symbol. * February 2 – The National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs i ...

. *

March 4 Events Pre-1600 *AD 51 – Nero, later to become Roman emperor, is given the title '' princeps iuventutis'' (head of the youth). * 306 – Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia. * 852 – Croatian Knez Trpimir I issues a st ...

** Emile Berliner invents the

microphone A microphone, colloquially called a mic or mike (), is a transducer that converts sound into an electrical signal. Microphones are used in many applications such as telephones, hearing aids, public address systems for concert halls and public ...

. **

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky , group=n ( ; 7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893) was a Russian composer of the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music would make a lasting impression internationally. He wrote some of the most popu ...

's ballet ''

Swan Lake ''Swan Lake'' ( rus, Лебеди́ное о́зеро, r=Lebedínoye ózero, p=lʲɪbʲɪˈdʲinəjə ˈozʲɪrə, link=no ), Op. 20, is a ballet composed by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1875–76. Despite its initial failur ...

'' debuts. ** Rutherford B. Hayes is sworn in as the 19th President of the United States. *

March 15 Events Pre-1600 * 474 BC – Roman consul Aulus Manlius Vulso celebrates an ovation for concluding the war against Veii and securing a forty years' truce. *44 BC – The assassination of Julius Caesar takes place. * 493 – Odoa ...

–

English cricket team in Australia and New Zealand in 1876–77 The 1876–77 tour of Australia and New Zealand was at the time considered to be another professional first-class cricket tour of the colonies, as similar tours had occurred previously, but retrospectively it became classified as the first Te ...

: The first

Test cricket Test cricket is a form of first-class cricket played at international level between teams representing full member countries of the International Cricket Council (ICC). A match consists of four innings (two per team) and is scheduled to last fo ...

match is held between England and Australia. * March 24 – For the only time in history, The Boat Race between the Universities of

Cambridge Cambridge ( ) is a university city and the county town in Cambridgeshire, England. It is located on the River Cam approximately north of London. As of the 2021 United Kingdom census, the population of Cambridge was 145,700. Cambridge bec ...

and

Oxford Oxford () is a city in England. It is the county town and only city of Oxfordshire. In 2020, its population was estimated at 151,584. It is north-west of London, south-east of Birmingham and north-east of Bristol. The city is home to the ...

is declared a "dead heat" (i.e., a draw).

April–June

April 1 Events Pre-1600 * 33 – According to one historian's account, Jesus Christ's Last Supper is held. * 527 – Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne. *1081 – Alexios I Kom ...

– Following years of murders of

Sharecroppers Sharecropping is a legal arrangement with regard to agricultural land in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on that land. Sharecropping has a long history and there are a wide range ...

and US army personnel by the former slave owners, the

Reconstruction era The Reconstruction era was a period in American history following the American Civil War (1861–1865) and lasting until approximately the Compromise of 1877. During Reconstruction, attempts were made to rebuild the country after the bloo ...

of the United States ends when Union troops pull out of the

Southern United States The Southern United States (sometimes Dixie, also referred to as the Southern States, the American South, the Southland, or simply the South) is a geographic and cultural region of the United States of America. It is between the Atlantic Ocean ...

. This leaves the former slaves at the mercy of their owners, which begins the

Gilded Age In United States history, the Gilded Age was an era extending roughly from 1877 to 1900, which was sandwiched between the Reconstruction era and the Progressive Era. It was a time of rapid economic growth, especially in the Northern and Weste ...

when large businesses start to

monopolize In United States antitrust law, monopolization is illegal monopoly behavior. The main categories of prohibited behavior include exclusive dealing, price discrimination, refusing to supply an essential facility, product tying and predatory pricing. ...

the American economy. *

April 10 Events Pre-1600 * 428 – Nestorius becomes the Patriarch of Constantinople. * 837 – Halley's Comet makes its closest approach to Earth at a distance equal to 0.0342 AU (5.1 million kilometres/3.2 million miles). * 1407 ...

– The first human cannonball act in the British Isles, and perhaps the world, is performed by 14-year-old

Rossa Matilda Richter Rossa Matilda Richter (7 April 1860–8 December 1937), who used the stage name Zazel, was an English aerialist and actor who became known as the first human cannonball at the age of 17. She began performing at a very young age, practicing aeria ...

("Zazel") at the London

Royal Aquarium The Royal Aquarium and Winter Garden was a place of amusement in Westminster, London. It opened in 1876, and the building was demolished in 1903. The attraction was located northwest of Westminster Abbey on Tothill Street. The building was design ...

. * April 12 ** The United Kingdom annexes the

South African Republic The South African Republic ( nl, Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, abbreviated ZAR; af, Suid-Afrikaanse Republiek), also known as the Transvaal Republic, was an independent Boer Republic in Southern Africa which existed from 1852 to 1902, when it ...

, violating the Sand River Convention of

1852 Events January–March * January 14 – President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte proclaims a new constitution for the French Second Republic. * January 15 – Nine men representing various Jewish charitable organizations come tog ...

, causing a new Xhosa War. ** The University of Tokyo is officially established in

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

. * April 24 –

Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) The Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878 ( tr, 93 Harbi, lit=War of ’93, named for the year 1293 in the Islamic calendar; russian: Русско-турецкая война, Russko-turetskaya voyna, "Russian–Turkish war") was a conflict between th ...

Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...

declares war on the

Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University) ...

. * May 5 –

Sitting Bull Sitting Bull ( lkt, Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake ; December 15, 1890) was a Hunkpapa Lakota leader who led his people during years of resistance against United States government policies. He was killed by Indian agency police on the Standing Rock I ...

leads his band of Lakota into

Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...

, to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel

Nelson Miles Nelson Appleton Miles (August 8, 1839 – May 15, 1925) was an American military general who served in the American Civil War, the American Indian Wars, and the Spanish–American War. From 1895 to 1903, Miles served as the last Commanding Gen ...

. * May 6 – Realizing that his people are weakened by cold and hunger, Chief

of the

Oglala Sioux The Oglala (pronounced , meaning "to scatter one's own" in Lakota language) are one of the seven subtribes of the Lakota people who, along with the Dakota, make up the Očhéthi Šakówiŋ (Seven Council Fires). A majority of the Oglala live o ...

surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska. *

May 8 Events Pre-1600 * 453 BC – Spring and Autumn period: The house of Zhao defeats the house of Zhi, ending the Battle of Jinyang, a military conflict between the elite families of the State of Jin. * 413 – Emperor Honorius signs a ...

– 11 – At Gilmore's Gardens in New York City, the first Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show is held. *

May 9 Events Pre-1600 * 328 – Athanasius is elected Patriarch of Alexandria. *1009 – Lombard Revolt: Lombard forces led by Melus revolt in Bari against the Byzantine Catepanate of Italy. *1386 – England and Portugal formally rati ...

– Iquique Earthquake and

tsunami A tsunami ( ; from ja, 津波, lit=harbour wave, ) is a series of waves in a water body caused by the displacement of a large volume of water, generally in an ocean or a large lake. Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and other underwater explo ...

: An earthquake of at least magnitude 8.5 M_s occurs on the west coast of South America, killing 2,541 around the

Pacific Rim The Pacific Rim comprises the lands around the rim of the Pacific Ocean. The ''Pacific Basin'' includes the Pacific Rim and the islands in the Pacific Ocean. The Pacific Rim roughly overlaps with the geologic Pacific Ring of Fire. List of co ...

. *

May 16 Events Pre-1600 * 946 – Emperor Suzaku abdicates the throne in favor of his brother Murakami who becomes the 62nd emperor of Japan. *1204 – Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire. * 1364 ...

– The

16 May 1877 crisis The 16 May 1877 crisis (french: link=no, Crise du seize mai) was a constitutional crisis in the French Third Republic concerning the distribution of power between the president and the legislature. When the royalist president Patrice MacMahon ...

occurs in France. * May 21 (May 9 O.S.) – By a speech in the

Parliament of Romania The Parliament of Romania ( ro, Parlamentul României) is the national bicameral legislature of Romania, consisting of the Chamber of Deputies ( ro, Camera Deputaților) and the Senate ( ro, Senat). It meets at the Palace of the Parliament i ...

Mihail Kogălniceanu Mihail Kogălniceanu (; also known as Mihail Cogâlniceanu, Michel de Kogalnitchan; September 6, 1817 – July 1, 1891) was a Romanian liberal statesman, lawyer, historian and publicist; he became Prime Minister of Romania on October 11, 1863, ...

, the country declares itself independent from the

(recognized in

1878 Events January–March * January 5 – Russo-Turkish War – Battle of Shipka Pass IV: Russian and Bulgarian forces defeat the Ottoman Empire. * January 9 – Umberto I becomes King of Italy. * January 17 – Battle o ...

after the end of the Romanian independence war). * June 15 –

Henry Ossian Flipper Henry Ossian Flipper (March 21, 1856 – April 26, 1940) was an American soldier, engineer, former slave and in 1877, the first African American to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point, earning a commission as a ...

becomes the first

African American African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa. The term "African American" generally denotes descendants of ens ...

cadet to graduate from the

United States Military Academy The United States Military Academy (USMA), also known metonymically as West Point or simply as Army, is a United States service academy in West Point, New York. It was originally established as a fort, since it sits on strategic high groun ...

. *

June 17 Events Pre-1600 * 653 – Pope Martin I is arrested and taken to Constantinople, due to his opposition to monothelitism. * 1242 – Following the Disputation of Paris, twenty-four carriage loads of Jewish religious manuscripts were bur ...

– American Indian Wars –

Battle of White Bird Canyon The Battle of White Bird Canyon was fought on June 17, 1877, in Idaho Territory. White Bird Canyon was the opening battle of the Nez Perce War between the Nez Perce Indians and the United States. The battle was a significant defeat of the U.S. ...

: The Nez Perce defeat the U.S. Cavalry at White Bird Canyon, in the

Idaho Territory The Territory of Idaho was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from March 3, 1863, until July 3, 1890, when the final extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as Idaho. History 1860s The territory w ...

. This begins the Nez Perce War. *

June 20 Events Pre-1600 * 451 – Battle of Chalons: Flavius Aetius' battles Attila the Hun. After the battle, which was inconclusive, Attila retreats, causing the Romans to interpret it as a victory. * 1180 – First Battle of Uji, starting ...

–

Alexander Graham Bell Alexander Graham Bell (, born Alexander Bell; March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was a Scottish-born inventor, scientist and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone. He also co-founded the American Telephone and Te ...

installs the world's first commercial telephone service in

Hamilton, Ontario Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Hamilton has a population of 569,353, and its census metropolitan area, which includes Burlington and Grimsby, has a population of 785,184. The city is approximately southwest of T ...

, Canada. *

June 21 Events Pre-1600 * 533 – A Byzantine expeditionary fleet under Belisarius sails from Constantinople to attack the Vandals in Africa, via Greece and Sicily (approximate date). * 1307 – Külüg Khan is enthroned as Khagan of the Mo ...

– The

Molly Maguires The Molly Maguires were an Irish 19th-century secret society active in Ireland, Liverpool and parts of the Eastern United States, best known for their activism among Irish-American and Irish immigrant coal miners in Pennsylvania. After a serie ...

are hanged at Carbon County Prison, in

Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania Jim Thorpe is a borough and the county seat of Carbon County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania. It is historically known as the burial site of Native American sports legend Jim Thorpe. Jim Thorpe is loc ...

. * June 26 – The eruption of the volcano Cotopaxi in

Ecuador Ecuador ( ; ; Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Quechua: ''Ikwadur Ripuwlika''; Shuar: ''Eku ...

causes severe mudflows that wipe out surrounding cities and valleys, killing 1,000. *

June 30 Events Pre-1600 * 296 – Pope Marcellinus begins his papacy. * 763 – The Byzantine Empire, Byzantine army of emperor Constantine V defeats the First Bulgarian Empire, Bulgarian forces in the Battle of Anchialus (763), Battle of Anc ...

– The British Mediterranean fleet is sent to Besika Bay.

July–September

July July is the seventh month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and is the fourth of seven months to have a length of 31 days. It was named by the Roman Senate in honour of Roman general Julius Caesar in 44 B.C., it being the mont ...

– The serial publication of

Leo Tolstoy Count Lev Nikolayevich TolstoyTolstoy pronounced his first name as , which corresponds to the romanization ''Lyov''. () (; russian: link=no, Лев Николаевич Толстой,In Tolstoy's day, his name was written as in pre-refor ...

's '' Anna Karenina'' is concluded, in ''

The Russian Messenger The ''Russian Messenger'' or ''Russian Herald'' (russian: Ру́сский ве́стник ''Russkiy Vestnik'', Pre-reform Russian: Русскій Вѣстникъ ''Russkiy Vestnik'') has been the title of three notable magazines published in ...

''. *

July 1 Events Pre-1600 * 69 – Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor. * 552 – Battle of Taginae: Byzantine forces under Narses defeat the Ostrogoths in Italy, and the ...

– An F4 tornado touched down near

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, and moved towards

Chester County Chester County may refer to: * Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States * Chester County, South Carolina, United States * Chester County, Tennessee, United States * Cheshire or the County Palatine of Chester, a ceremonial county in the North Wes ...

. A woman was killed near Ercildoun; a man was killed near Parkesburg. 4 homes were destroyed at Parkesburg and 20 buildings were destroyed at Ercildoun. 10 homes or more were leveled in Chester County. It is possible a third person died. *

July 9 Events Pre-1600 *118 – Hadrian, who became emperor a year previously on Trajan's death, makes his entry into Rome. * 381 – The end of the First Council of Christian bishops convened in Constantinople by the Roman Emperor Theodos ...

– The

All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, also known as the All England Club, based at Church Road, Wimbledon, London, Wimbledon, London, England, is a Gentlemen's club, private members' club. It is best known as the venue for the Wimbledon ...

begins its first lawn tennis tournament at

Wimbledon Wimbledon most often refers to: * Wimbledon, London, a district of southwest London * Wimbledon Championships, the oldest tennis tournament in the world and one of the four Grand Slam championships Wimbledon may also refer to: Places London * ...

. *

July 16 Events Pre-1600 * 622 – The beginning of the Islamic calendar. * 997 – Battle of Spercheios: Bulgarian forces of Tsar Samuel are defeated by a Byzantine army under general Nikephoros Ouranos at the Spercheios River in Greece. * 105 ...

– Great Railroad Strike of 1877: Riots by

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was the first common carrier railroad and the oldest railroad in the United States, with its first section opening in 1830. Merchants from Baltimore, which had benefited to some extent from the construction of ...

railroad workers in

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lead to a sympathy strike and rioting in Pittsburgh, and a full-scale worker's rebellion in St. Louis, briefly establishing a Communist government, before U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes calls in the armed forces. *

July 19 Events Pre-1600 *AD 64 – The Great Fire of Rome causes widespread devastation and rages on for six days, destroying half of the city. * 484 – Leontius, Roman usurper, is crowned Eastern emperor at Tarsus (modern Turkey). He is re ...

– Russo-Turkish War: The first battle in the

siege of Plevna The siege of Pleven, was a major battle of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878, fought by the joint army of Russia and Romania against the Ottoman Empire. After the Russian army crossed the Danube at Svishtov, it began advancing towards t ...

is fought. *

July 30 Events Pre-1600 * 762 – Baghdad is founded. *1419 – First Defenestration of Prague: A crowd of radical Hussites kill seven members of the Prague city council. *1502 – Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands ...

– Russo-Turkish War: The second battle in the

is fought. *

– Russo-Turkish War: The Turkish army and its allies destroy the

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n city of

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and massacre the inhabitants. * August 9 – American Indian Wars –

Battle of the Big Hole The Battle of the Big Hole was fought in Montana Territory, August 9–10, 1877, between the United States Army and the Nez Perce tribe of Native Americans during the Nez Perce War. Both sides suffered heavy casualties. The Nez Perce withd ...

: Near Big Hole River,

, a small band of Nez Perce people who refuse government orders to move to a reservation, clash with the

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. The army loses 29 soldiers, and the Indians lose 89 warriors, in an Army victory. * August 12 –

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astronomer

Asaph Hall Asaph Hall III (October 15, 1829 – November 22, 1907) was an American astronomer who is best known for having discovered the two moons of Mars, Deimos and Phobos, in 1877. He determined the orbits of satellites of other planets and of double ...

discovers

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, the outer

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Mars Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second-smallest planet in the Solar System, only being larger than Mercury (planet), Mercury. In the English language, Mars is named for the Mars (mythology), Roman god of war. Mars is a terr ...

. * August 18 –

discovers Phobos (moon), Phobos, the inner

. * September 1 – The Battle of Lovcha, third battle in the

, is fought. Russian forces successfully reduce the Ottoman fortress at Lovech, Lovcha. * September 5 – American Indian Wars: Oglala Sioux chief

is bayoneted by a United States soldier, after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson in Nebraska. * September 22 – Treaty 7 is concluded between several mainly Blackfoot First Nations in Canada, First Nations tribes and the Canadian Confederation, at the Blackfoot Crossing of the Bow River, settling the Blackfoot on Indian reserves in what will become southern Alberta. * September 24 – Battle of Shiroyama in Kagoshima, Japan: The Imperial Japanese Army annihilates heavily outnumbered rebel ''

'' under Saigō Takamori (who is killed), ending the Satsuma Rebellion.

October–December

* October 22 – The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners. * November 14 – Henrik Ibsen's first contemporary realist drama ''The Pillars of Society'' is premièred at the Odense Teater. * November 21 – Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound, considered Edison's first great invention. Edison demonstrates the device for the first time on November 29. * November 22 – The first college lacrosse game is played between New York University and Manhattan College. * December 9 – The fourth battle of the Russo-Turkish War (1877–78), Russo-Turkish War is fought, concluding the

. * December 13 – Serbia restates its previous declaration of war against Turkey. * December 17 – Disastrous premiere of Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 3 (Bruckner), Third Symphony in D minor at the Vienna Philharmonic * December 30 – Symphony No. 2 (Brahms), Brahms' Symphony No. 2 premieres in Vienna.

Births

January–March

* January 2 – Slava Raškaj, Croatian painter (d. 1906) * January 3 – Josephine Hull, American actress (d. 1957) * January 22 – Hjalmar Schacht, German economist, politician and banker (d. 1970) * January 26 – Kees van Dongen, Dutch-French painter (d. 1968) * February 4 – Eddie Cochems, father of the forward pass in History of American football, American football (d. 1953) * February 7 – G. H. Hardy, British mathematician (d. 1947) * February 8 – Carl Tanzler, German-born radiology technologist (d. 1952) * February 12 – Louis Renault (industrialist), Louis Renault, French industrialist, founder of ''Renault'' (d. 1944) * February 14 – Edmund Landau, German mathematician (d. 1938) *

** Isabelle Eberhardt, Swiss explorer, writer (d. 1904) ** André Maginot, French politician (d. 1932) * February 19 – Gabriele Münter, German painter (d. 1962) * February 25 – Erich von Hornbostel, Austrian musicologist (d. 1935) *

– Consuelo Vanderbilt, Duchess of Marlborough (d. 1964) *

– Garrett Morgan, American inventor (d. 1963) * March 7 – Thorvald Ellegaard, Danish track cyclist (d. 1954) * March 10 – Pascual Ortiz Rubio, Mexican politician, substitute President of Mexico, 1930-1932 (d. 1963) * March 12 – Wilhelm Frick, German Nazi politician (d. 1946) * March 18 – Edgar Cayce, American psychic (d. 1945)

April–June

* April 15 – Georg Kolbe, German sculptor (d. 1947) * April 30 – Alice B. Toklas, American writer (d. 1967) * May 3 – Karl Abraham, German psychoanalyst (d. 1925) * May 24 – Samuel W. Bryant, American admiral (d. 1938) * May 25 – Billy Murray (singer), Billy Murray, American singer (d. 1954) * May 27 – Isadora Duncan, American dancer (d. 1927) * June 4 – Heinrich Otto Wieland, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1957) * June 7 – Charles Glover Barkla, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1944) * June 11 – Renée Vivien, British poet who wrote in French (d. 1909) * June 12 – Thomas C. Hart, American admiral, politician (d. 1971) * June 14 – Jane Bathori, French opera singer (d. 1970) * June 18 – James Montgomery Flagg, American artist, comics artist and illustrator (d. 1960) * June 19 – Charles Coburn, American actor (d. 1961)

July–September

* July 2 ** Rinaldo Cuneo, American artist ("the painter of San Francisco") (d. 1939) ** Hermann Hesse, German-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962) * July 6 – Arnaud Massy, French golfer (d. 1950) * July 13 – Erik Scavenius, Prime Minister of Denmark (d. 1962) *

– Arthur Fielder, English cricketer (d. 1949) * July 27 – Ernst von Dohnányi, Hungarian conductor (d. 1960) * July 31 – Louisa Bolus, South African botanist and taxonomist (d. 1970) * August 1 – George Hackenschmidt, Estonian strongman, professional wrestler (d. 1968) * August 6 – Wallace H. White, Jr., U.S. Senator from Maine (d. 1952) * August 7 – Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (d. 1949) * August 16 – Roque Ruaño, Spanish priest, civil engineer (d. 1935) * August 22 – Ananda Coomaraswamy, Ceylonese Tamil philosopher (d. 1947) * August 26 – John Latham (judge), John Latham, Australian politician, judge (d. 1964) * August 27 ** Lloyd C. Douglas, American minister, author (d. 1951) ** Charles Rolls, Welsh co-founder of the Rolls-Royce Limited, Rolls-Royce car firm, pioneer aviator (d. 1910) * August 29 – Dudley Pound, British admiral (d. 1943) * September 1 ** Francis William Aston, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1945) ** Rex Beach, American novelist, playwright, and Olympic water polo player (d. 1949) * September 2 – Frederick Soddy, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1956) * September 6 – Buddy Bolden, American jazz musician (d. 1931) *September 14 – Leonhard Seppala, Norwegian-American sled dog breeder, trainer and musher (d. 1967) * September 25 – Plutarco Elías Calles, Mexican general and President of Mexico, 1924–1928; known as ''Jefe Maximo'' ("Maximum Boss") from 1928 to 1934 (d. 1945) * September 26 **Alfred Cortot, Swiss pianist (d. 1962) **Edmund Gwenn, English actor (d. 1959) **Bertha De Vriese, Belgian physician (d. 1958)

October–December

* October 10 – William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield, British businessman, philanthropist (d. 1963) * October 15 – Helen Ware, American stage, film actress (d. 1939) * October 21 – Oswald Avery, Canadian-American physician, medical researcher (d. 1955) * October 22 – Frederick Twort, English bacteriologist (d. 1950) * October 29 – Narcisa de Leon, Filipino film producer (d. 1966) * October 30 – Hugo Celmiņš, 2-time prime minister of Latvia (d. 1941) * November 1 – Else Ury, German writer, children's book author (d. 1943) * November 2 – Claire McDowell, American silent film actress (d. 1966) * November 3 – Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, 2-time President of Chile (d. 1960) * November 9 ** Enrico De Nicola, 1st President of Italy (d. 1959) ** Allama Iqbal, Indian philosopher, one of the founding fathers of the Muslims of India (d. 1938) * November 15 – William Hope Hodgson, English author (d. 1918) * November 17 – Frank Lahm, Brigadier General USAF, airship pilot, early military aviator trained by the Wright brothers (d. 1963) * November 20 – Herbert Pitman, British mariner; 3rd Officer aboard RMS Titanic (d. 1961) * November 22 ** Endre Ady, Hungarian poet (d. 1919) ** Joan Gamper, Swiss-born businessman, founder of FC Barcelona (d. 1930) * November 24 ** Alben W. Barkley, List of Vice Presidents of the United States, 35th Vice President of the United States (d. 1956) ** Edward C. Kalbfus, American admiral (d. 1954) * December 3 – Richard Pearse, New Zealand airplane pioneer (d. 1953) * December 16 – Kichisaburō Nomura, Japanese admiral and diplomat (d. 1964) * December 30 – Edward Ellington, British military officer; Marshal of the Royal Air Force (d. 1967)

Date unknown

* Rashid Tali’a, Prime Minister of Jordan (d. 1926)

Deaths

January–June

– Karl von Urban, Austrian field marshal (suicide) (b. 1802) * January 2 – Alexander Bain (inventor), Alexander Bain, Scottish inventor (b. 1811) * January 4 – Cornelius Vanderbilt, American entrepreneur (b. 1794) *

– Dato Maharajalela Lela, Malays (ethnic group), Malay nationalist * February 18 – Henrietta A. Bingham, American editor (b. 1841) * February 20 – Louis M. Goldsborough, United States Navy admiral (b. 1805) * February 25 – Jung Bahadur Rana, Nepalese ruler (b. 1817) * March 1 – Antoni Patek, Polish watchmaker (b. 1811) * March 24 – Walter Bagehot, British businessman, essayist and journalist (b. 1826) * March 25 – Caroline Chisholm, Australian humanitarian (b. 1808) * March 31 – Bully Hayes, American-born Caribbean blackbirder (killed) (b. 1827 or 1829) * April 8 – Bernardino António Gomes Jr., Bernardino António Gomes, Portuguese physician and naturalist (b. 1806) * April 14 – Konstantin Bernhard von Voigts-Rhetz, Prussian general (b. 1809) * April 15 – J. P. C. Emmons, American attorney and politician (b. 1818) * May 6 – J. L. Runeberg, Finnish national poet (b. 1804) * May 19 – Charlotta Djurström, Swedish actress and theater manager (b. 1807) * May 26 – Kido Takayoshi, Japanese statesman (b. 1833) * June 3 ** Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, Austrian musicologist (b. 1800) ** Sophie of Württemberg, queen consort of the Netherlands (b. 1818) *

– John Stevens Cabot Abbott, American historian, pastor and pedagogical writer (b. 1805) * June 22 – John R. Goldsborough, U.S. Navy commodore (b. 1809)

July–December

– Samuel McLean (congressman), Samuel McLean, American congressman (b. 1826) * July 27 – John Frost (Chartist), John Frost, British Chartist leader (b. 1784) * August 2 – Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz, Prussian field marshal Urdu (b. 1796) * August 8 – William Lovett, British Chartist leader (b. 1800) * August 17 – Isaac Aaron, English-born physician, owner of the ''Australian Medical Journal'' and secretary of the Australian Medical Association (b. 1804) * August 29 – Brigham Young, American Mormon leader (b. 1801) * August 30 – Raphael Semmes, American and Confederate naval officer (b. 1809) * September 2 – Konstantinos Kanaris, Greek politician (b. 1795) * September 3 – Adolphe Thiers, French historian, politician (b. 1797) * September 5 –

, American Oglala Lakota chief (b. 1840-45) * September 12 – Emily Pepys, English child diarist (b. 1833) * September 13 – Alexandre Herculano, Portuguese writer and historian (b. 1810) * September 17 – Henry Fox Talbot, English photographer (b. 1800) * September 24 – Saigō Takamori, Japanese ''samurai'' (b. 1828) * October 3 – James Roosevelt Bayley, first Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark, Roman Catholic Bishop of Newark, New Jersey, and eighth Archbishop of Baltimore (b. 1814) * October 10 – Johann Georg Baiter, Swiss philologist, textual critic (b. 1801) * October 16 – Théodore Barrière, French dramatist (b. 1823) * October 28 – Julia Kavanagh, Irish novelist (b. 1824) * October 29 – Nathan Bedford Forrest, American Confederate Civil War General, first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan (b. 1821) * November 1 – Oliver P. Morton, American politician (b. 1823) * November 2 – Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Prussian field marshal (b. 1784) * December 12 – José de Alencar, Brazilian novelist (b. 1829) * December 17 – Louis d'Aurelle de Paladines, French general (b. 1804) * December 29 – Angelica Singleton Van Buren, Acting First Lady of the United States (b. 1818) * December 30 – William Cormick, physician in Qajar Iran of British origin (b. 1822) * December 31 – Gustave Courbet, French painter (b. 1819)

Date unknown

* Nicolae Golescu, 9th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1810)

Events

January–March

April–June

July–September

October–December

Births

January–March

April–June

July–September

October–December

Date unknown

Deaths

January–June

July–December

Date unknown

References

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